Olivier Legrand

Co-Founder & CEO

2024 - Current

Our mission: strengthening the independence of brokers At Little John, we are convinced that brokers are the best intermediaries for insurance for small businesses (TPEs), SMEs, and mid-sized companies (ETIs). That’s why we are building for brokers: - A toolbox that, thanks to Artificial Intelligence, will enhance their efficiency and relevance across all areas of brokerage. - A brokers' collective with the goal of defending their independence and addressing the new challenges of brokerage and insurance.

Member of the Transaction Advisory Panel (TAP)

2021

Growtheum Capital Partners is a Singapore headquartered private equity firm targeting investments primarily in Southeast Asia. Growtheum Capital Partners Pte. Ltd. holds a Capital Markets Services Licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for the provision of fund management services for accredited investors and institutional investors

Advisory Board Member

2022

H2 is the premier global leadership network for the technology industry supporting startup ecosystems around the world.

Chief Operating Officer (formerly Sendinblue)

2022 - 2023

Role & Responsibilities: - Managing the Go To Market functions in the organization inclusive of Marketing, Sales, Customer Care, Strategy & Operations, M&A, HR as well as the companies international efforts which materialised in the leadership of our US and Germany CEO’s, while the company founder & CEO kept direct ownership of Tech (CTO), Product (CPO) and Finance (CFO). - Responsible for creating and leading the implementation of company rituals necessary to effectively run a 100m ARR, 700+ employees organization distributed across 7 different offices across the world. This includes implementing a complete OKR process, Quarterly Business Reviews, the creation of a Senior Leadership Team (SLT) of 35 key leaders responsible for operationalising the company strategy and visions and making sure the weekly COMEX and Company bi-monthly All Hands become more effective. These initiatives’ primary goals were to make sure that the company remain focused and that we were allocating our resources against our biggest and most important priorities.

Managing Director and Vice President, Asia Pacific & China

2015 - 2021

Role & Responsibilities : - Building a world-class team and uphold LinkedIn culture and values. -Focus on business and members growth across a portfolio of core (Australia, Singapore), Strategic (India and SEA) and Venture markets (Japan and China). - Building mutlti-year strategies to grow LinkedIn that took into consideration Asia’s diversity of markets and the unique maturity of each of our markets and business lines. (Talent, Marketing, Sales, Learning) - Day to day management and P&L ownership of LinkedIn 5 business lines: Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Learning Solutions, Premium & Sales Solutions. Key Results: - During this period, we were able to more than double LinkedIn’s membership in Asia from 90m to over 200m. This included developing locally relevant in China and Japan. - At the same time, we tripled our bookings - LinkedIn’s Asia Pacific team also doubled during this period to reach 2,500+ colleagues.

Senior Director, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions, Asia Pacific & Japan

2012 - 2015

My team and I oversaw LinkedIn Media and Social Engagement, lead generation offering in the Asia Pacific region helping brands leverage the LinkedIn ecosystem to market their products and services. During these years we built a world-class, cross-functional Go To Market team that included, Sales, Customer Success, Sales Operations, Agency Relationships, Media Operations, and more… This team spanned across Australia, India, Singapore (SEA), Japan and Hong Kong, & China Mainland

Affiliate Partner TGV4

2018 - 2021

True Global Ventures 4 is a Global Blockchain Equity fund that invests in Serial Entrepreneurs in over 30 cities.

Limited Partner & Investor

2017 - 2021

- 2.12 Angels: Highest value-add Venture fund to Founders per dollar invested. (US) - Indus Valley Capital: Early-stage venture capital fund focused on Pakistan - Febe Ventures: For entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs - South East Asia - XA Network: Investment Network fostering Inclusive innovation in SEA - The Family : Leading Angel network in France https://xanetwork.co/ - https://www.thefamily.co/ - https://www.febe.vc/ - https://www.212angels.com/ -https://www.indus.vc/

Chairman

2014 - 2016

The IAB SEA Singapore’s goal is to promote investment in interactive advertising, and it plays a leading role in raising the profile, positive perception and growth of the industry in Singapore and throughout the region.

Member of the leadership Council

2012 - 2014

Member of the Advisory Board - Start Up Mentor

2013 - 2016

NEST is Hong Kong's first full-service incubator investment platform that actively manages its portfolio companies. NEST invests in the people as much as the business concepts, and empowers each team with the tools they require to achieve global success with their businesses.

General Manager, Asia

2008 - 2012

I founded and managed the WSJ Digital Network in APAC which included WSJ.com Asia Edition, Chinese.WSJ.com, Japan.WSJ.com, and The Realtime Blogs. I was then responsible for both local product development in p[partnership with editorial and monetization. (P&L Owner)

Director of Marketing & Business Development - Asia -

2005 - 2008

I was responsible for all things marketing across Print and Online including Circulation Marketing, Lead Generation, and Brand Marketing across WSJ, MarketWatch, Far Eastern Economic Review